Naively, it sounds like the same problem — you’d want some kind of sheaf on your data to evaluate rules. Detecting routes sounds like a persistent homology pro

Naively, it sounds like the same problem — you’d want some kind of sheaf on your data to evaluate rules. Detecting routes sounds like a persistent homology problem — and then you’re detecting flow across that inferred structure. I think Michael Robinson has work in that area: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Wu8kTngoE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Wu8kTngoE